D Chakravarthy

Professor of Practice -Human Resources

D Chakravarthy (Called –DC ) is a veteran HR leader whose career spans for four decades in  PSU, Private sector, Family Owned, Listed Companies in India with a stint in Middle East. His last stint was in VA Tech Wabag, as Head of HR, India cluster (India, South and SE & ME Asia)

His experience spans more than  1500 Assessments, across industries in India, since 2018, for Mid and Senior Management professionals, both on line and off line through a mix of group and individual exercises like Group Activities, Role Plays, Interviews, In Basket exercises, Case Presentations, Ability, and Personality Assessment Tests.  

He is an Independent Assessor for Assessment and Development Centre's to identify High Potential Talent for: Leadership Potential for Succession Planning and Developing an internal Leadership pipeline for Companies. Developing Customized IDPs- Individual Development Plans. Competency Based Interviewing for Mid & Senior Level Leadership positions across functions. 

 He has created HR Policies, Manuals, Job Descriptions, Competency Framework and Mapping, Performance   Management Systems, Individual and Group Performance Pay Policies, Change Management, Organization   Restructuring across EPC, Manufacturing, IT, FMCG, Dairy, Retail Merchandising Companies. Tremendously successful   in Talent Acquisition in India, Europe, Middle East, South, and Southeast Asian countries through LinkedIn. Done   Campus Recruitments from prestigious institutions for more than two decades.

 DC is an empaneled recruitment Consultant for a couple of  leading  Companies in the EPC industry and specializes  in Competency Based and Behavioral Event Interviewing.

Certified & Trained in Personality Assessments, Psychometric Tests, Competency-Based Interviewing by SHL, in Role Clarity Documents, Position Classification by Mercer, and in Thomas Personality Profiling .

B. Com, 1979 – The American college, Madurai Kamaraj University 

Diploma in Social Work, 1982 (Personnel Management, Labour Laws) Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management, Calcutta University